Miles Sindercombe (died February 13, 1657) was the leader of a group that tried to assassinate Oliver Cromwell in 1657.
Sindercombe was born in Kent and was apprenticed to a surgeon. During the English Civil War he became a Roundhead and a Leveller. In 1649 he took part in the mutiny of his regiment and when it failed he fled. In 1655 he re-appeared as a member of a cavalry regiment in Scotland and took part in a plot to take control of the local...
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Miles Sindercombe (died February 13, 1657) was the leader of a group that tried to assassinate Oliver Cromwell in 1657.
Sindercombe was born in Kent and was apprenticed to a surgeon. During the English Civil War he became a Roundhead and a Leveller. In 1649 he took part in the mutiny of his regiment and when it failed he fled. In 1655 he re-appeared as a member of a cavalry regiment in Scotland and took part in a plot to take control of the local army. This failed as well and Sindercombe fled to the Netherlands.
In Flanders he met another Leveller and anti-Cromwell plotter Edward Sexby in 1656. Sindercombe joined his plot to assassinate Cromwell in hope of restoring the Puritan republic as they saw it. Sexby supplied Sindercombe with money and weapons.
In 1656 Sindercombe returned to England and gathered a group of co-conspirators, including renegade soldier John Cecil, apparent conman William Boyes and John Toope, a member of Cromwell's Life-Guards. Toope gave plotters information...
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